Clitocybe brumalis commonly known as the Winter Funnel Cap is an inedible mushroom of the genus Clitocybe

Clitocybe

Hundreds of species of mushrooms compose the fungus genus Clitocybe. They are characterized by white, off-white, buff, cream, pink, or light-yellow spores, gills running down the stem, and pale white to brown or lilac coloration. They are primarily saprotrophic, decomposing forest ground litter...

. It grows in deciduous and coniferous woodland, only in winter; sometimes even under snow.

Description

The cap is convex or umbilicate when young, soon funnel shaped. Pale when moist, with a weakly translucent and striped margin, almost white when dry and grows up to 5 cm in diameter. The gills are dirty white, crowded and a little decurrent. The spores are also white. The stem is pale brown, striped and soon hollow, with a white, felty base.
The flesh is dirty brown.

Similar species

Several species growing in autumn look very similar and are difficult to distinguish.